Methadone Does Not Work Bibliography

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STOP METHADONE IGNORANCE It is not uncommon for individuals with a long history of illicit opiate use to remain in methadone treatment as a long term patient. Many often say that without methadone treatment they would probably be dead. Other forms of treatment were not effective and they had come to believe that they would…

This chart was prepared by Herman Joseph and Joycelyn Sue Woods and is reprinted from METHADONE TREATMENT WORKS: A COMPENDIUM FOR METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT Topic Illicit Heroin Addiction Stabilized Methadone Maintenance Onset of action Immediate 30 minutes Duration of action 4 – 6 hours 24 – 36 hours or half-life Route of administration Injection, snorting,…

FALSE!   While a significant minority of methadone patients become alcoholic, over 98% were heavy or problem drinkers prior to their introduction to heroin. The statistics for cocaine abusers are similar. Methadone maintenance is not a treatment for non-opioid drug abuse. The patient who responds best to methadone maintenance treatment is one who has a…

These facts were important, of course, to Dole and Nyswander, but were completely crucial in their long battle to get government to go along with the idea of methadone maintenance.  Government reflects Americans practical tendency as well as its moralistic, judgmental tendency, and in this case the practical tendency can out on top.  Government allowed…

National Alliance of Methadone Advocates The Pharmacology of Methadone Ignorance about methadone abounds. Professionals working in the field receive very little or no training at all about the very medication that they will be administering. Rarely is addiction viewed as a disease and under the domain of the medical profession. Even the medical profession does…